Showing posts with label investment news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investment news. Show all posts

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Govt proposes setting up a tech startups incubation program – Budget 2015

Union Budget 2015
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed the setting up of a "techno-money related incubation and help program" called the Self Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU), amid his financial plan presentation today. He specified that Rs 1000 crore will be at first put aside for this. From the monetary allowance discourse:

"The legislature is making a mechanism known as Self Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU) to be techno-money related incubation and help program to help all parts of new company and other self employment exercises especially in the innovation driven ranges. I am setting aside Rs 1,000 crore at first for this reason."

The goal for this he said was to address "concerns, for example, more liberal arrangement of raising global capital, incubation offices in our focuses of incredibleness, funding for seed capital and the simplicity of working together need to be addressed to make a lakh occupations and many billions of dollars in quality."

He additionally proposed an introductory entirety of 150 center to make a world class IT hub "to exploit our intensity". The Minister additionally reported that income taxes on Technical Services would be lessened from 25% to 10% with the point of empowering tech startups.

Perusers will recall that amid a year ago's financial plan presentation the Minister had proposed an across the country "Area level Incubation and Accelerator Program" for incubation of new ideas and giving fundamental backing to quicken entrepreneurship. He had likewise proposed a Rs 200 crore fund to secure an innovation focus system to advance innovation, entrepreneurship and the agro-business. These two ideas appear to have been clubbed together to setup the proposed startup incubation program.

It's additionally important that the Minister had proposed to build a Rs 10,000 crore fund to pull in private capital by giving value, semi value, delicate loans and other danger capital for startups. On the other hand, there was notice of this startup fund in today's discourse. Truth be told, there was a critical focus on startups in a year ago's financial plan discourse, including proposition for a Startup Village Entrepreneurship program to urge rural youth to take up neighborhood entrepreneurship programs, and a beginning total of ₹100 crore had been accommodated it. No notice of it not long from now.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Snapdeal Founders Invest in Online Apparel Startup Bewakoof

Snapdeal Founders Invest in Bewakoof

Mumbai-based online apparel startup, Bewakoof has raised an undisclosed amount from Snapdeal founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal. Alongside Snapdeal founders, Former IDFC Securities Managing Director and co-Head of Research, Nikhil Vora has likewise put resources into individual capacity.

The organization was selling its product all alone's store and on marketplaces, however now it has chosen to change to a terminus model.

The startup has possessed the capacity to generate an annual sales run-rate of INR 20 crore and targets to achieve the USD 100 million in the next 5-7 years. Its revenue has grown 3 times in the past 6 months and in excess of 50 percent of its sales originates from mobile.

Prabhkiran Singh, fellow benefactor of Bewakoof.com said, "We switched on the grounds that this is the place the future is. India will skirt the composed retail revolution and the online retail will rise to be a bigger business. We accept that 30-40 major online fashion brands with USD 100m+ revenue will be made online. The strongest of brands will get to be ends for the customers and the others will rely on upon marketplaces for their distribution."

At one time, the organization had plans of raising INR 25 crore to expand its portfolio and expand its vicinity crosswise over block and-mortar retail stores crosswise over India. Begun in 2012 by Prabhkiran Singh and Siddharth Munot, the brand sells just on its website and shopping application, likewise has relationship with Bollywood for its merchandise.

In December, Snapdeal founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal had taken an interest in a USD 200,000 speculation round in a Delhi-based startup, Gigstart, an online gathering arranging commercial center.


Image Source: Bewakoof.com

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Aditya Birla Group Plans to Enter into the Indian E-commerce Space

Billionaire Birla plans to enter Ecommerce
After Ratan Tata's late ventures in e-commerce, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the USD 40 billion Aditya Birla group, is looking to enter into Indian e-commerce market with plans to either procure e-retailers or to launch another remain solitary e-commerce venture.

As Bloomberg reported, He declined to uncover more insights about his e-commerce plans be that as it may, the group is taking a gander at numerous business verticals rather than concentrates on a particular one.

"There's a considerable measure of ground for new ventures in e-commerce," he said. "I am not saying that we can take an Amazon head-on. However there are a ton of green spaces." Birla joins the association of disconnected from the net business tycoons like Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani, who are discovering the online pastures green.

Birla is additionally searching for speculators in his current blocks and-mortar retail businesses, which incorporate the "More" chain of supermarkets and Pantaloons attire stores, which was prior under Future Group. He said, "E-tailing is the path forward, It reflects the new India. It's about new lifestyles, new spending examples, its about new family structures. What's more we need to be in that space."

Snapdeal as of late raised USD 1 billion in the not so distant future from ebay, Ratan Tata and Azim Premji; Japanese enterprise Soft Bank had likewise invested USD 627 million in the organization.

Amazon plans to use USD 2 billion for amplifying its Indian operations. Flipkart, an adversary of both Snapdeal and Amazon, shut USD 1 billion headed by Tiger Global, DST and Accel Partners.

An alternate logged off retailer, Kishore Biyani, additionally has been in news of late around talking transparently the deficiencies of existing online retailers. Also his organization, Future Group, as of late declared a partnership with Amazon India, through which it will solely offer its attire online.

What's more his organization, Future Group, as of late declared a partnership with Amazon India, through which it will solely offer its attire online.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Japanese Corporation Softbank Invests USD 627M in Snapdeal

Softbank invests in Snapdeal
Keeping in mind the end goal to fortify its vicinity in India, Japanese telecom and internet enterprise, Softbank has invested USD 627 million in Snapdeal. Softbank had likewise as of late invested USD 210 million in Indian cab administration aggregator, Olacabs. As a component of the arrangement, Nikesh Arora, Vice Chairman of Softbank Corp. also CEO of SIMI will join the board of Snapdeal.

Prior, Snapdeal had secured USD 100 million in May 2014 and got an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata in August in the not so distant future. The most recent round brings the aggregate capital raised by the company near USD 1 billion.

The raised stores is required to be utilized to extend the company business in the nation, both naturally and through acquisitions. Snapdeal was established in 2010 and as of now claims to have more than 25 million enrolled clients and around 50,000 business sellers with a grouping of 5 million+ products over 500+ differing classifications from different territorial, national, and global brands and retailers.

Its stage conveys administrations to 5000+ cities and towns in India and has seen 600 percent development from 2013-2014. According to Yourstory report, Kunal Bahl, Co-organizer and CEO of Snapdeal said, "Our whole group at Snapdeal is excited and respected to have Softbank as a key accomplice. With the support of Son-san and Nikesh, we are confident we will further fortify our guarantee to consumers and make life changing experiences for 1 million little businesses in India."

Additionally, Nikesh said that with today's advertisement Softbank is helping the improvement of the framework for the digital future of India, and it needs to support the pioneers and ambitious people of the digital future.